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Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Editionprovides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, economics, and the life and social sciences. Students achieve success using this text as a result of the author's applied and real-world orientation to concepts, problem-solving approach, straight forward and concise writing style, and comprehensive exercise sets. More than 100,000 students worldwide have studied from this text!

Chapter 1: Functions, Graphs, and Limits

1.1 Functions

1.2 The Graph of a Function

1.3 Lines and Linear Functions

1.4 Functional Models

1.5 Limits

1.6 One-Sided Limits and Continuity

Chapter 2: Differentiation: Basic Concepts

2.1 The Derivative

2.2 Techniques of Differentiation

2.3 Product and Quotient Rules; Higher-Order Derivatives

2.4 The Chain Rule

2.5 Marginal Analysis and Approximations Using Increments

2.6 Implicit Differentiation and Related Rates

Chapter 3: Additional Applications of the Derivative

3.1 Increasing and Decreasing Functions; Relative Extrema

3.2 Concavity and Points of Inflection

3.3 Curve Sketching

3.4 Optimization; Elasticity of Demand

3.5 Additional Applied Optimization

Chapter 4: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

4.1 Exponential Functions; Continuous Compounding

4.2 Logarithmic Functions

4.3 Differentiation of Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

4.4 Additional Applications; Exponential Models

Chapter 5: Integration

5.1 Indefinite Integration and Differential Equations

5.2 Integration by Substitution

5.3 The Definite Integral and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

5.4 Applying Definite Integration: Distribution of Wealth and Average Value